Renzi set to be sworn in

Padona only one of 16 ministers missing

(ANSA) - Rome, February 22 - Matteo Renzi, 39, was set to be
sworn in Saturday as Italy's yougest premier Saturday at the
head of a a team of 16 ministers, eight of them women, with an
average age of 47, also the youngest ever.
The Democratic Party (PD) leader and former Florence mayor,
who has vowed to overhaul the jobs market and the tax and
education systems in four months, will then leave for Florence
to prepare his speech for a confidence vote in the Senate Monday
and the House Tuesday.

Former Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
deputy director Pier Carlo Padoan will not get back form a G20
meeting in Australia in time for the 11:30 (10:30) ceremony at
the presidential palace.
Renzi thanked his supporters on Twitter ahead of his
swearing-in by President Giorgio Napolitano at the Qurinale
Palce.
"Thanks for the messages. Tough, difficult task.
"But we're Italy, we'll do it.
"One vow: stay ourselves," tweeted the PD leader, who ousted
his party colleague Enrico Letta nine days ago.

Security was tight around Rome's political offices with the
memory of a mentally unstable gunman wounded two Carabinieri
police officers in front of the premier's office as Letta's
cabinet was being sworn in up the Quirinale Hill on April 28.